ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa told community members in Tsabella in Ekurhuleni, that by not voting for the ANC, they essentially risk saying goodbye to electricity supply “for good” because no other political party can do so.
“I have been told by your mayor [Mzwandile Masina] that you have had no electricity for over four months. He says that the reason for your lack of electricity has been the fact that your transformer used to supply this community with electricity was apparently damaged and Eskom has indicated that it has no capacity to replace it at the moment,” said Ramaphosa who was on a campaign trail.
In addition, Ramaphosa told the community members that load shedding is nothing new and that even countries like the US has experienced these power outages. Ramaphosa also touched on illegal electricity connections and discouraged residents against them as it is a contributing factor to load shedding.
“I’ve seen your placards saying ‘no electricity, no vote’ – if you say that then who will fix the electricity? That means there will be no electricity for good because the ANC provides electricity. The same ANC you don’t like. Who will you vote for then to provide electricity? There’s nobody else that can provide electricity for you,” he told the crowd in isiZulu.
Eskom has had difficulty keeping the lights on since the beginning of October and has largely attributed these rolling blackouts to a shortage of generation capacity. The country is currently in stage 2 of load shedding until 05:00 on Saturday.
Sources: MSN, News Chant
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